Further thoughts on Massimiliano Zattera's "slot alphabet" for the Voynich manuscript, and his concept of "separable words".
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_p ... -revisited
Some alternative rankings of the ten most frequent "words" in the "herbal" section of the Voynich manuscript. Source: author’s analysis. RSQ denotes correlation coefficient for frequencies of all words in the section’s vocabulary, against the expected frequencies as per Zipf’s Law.
Zattera’s separable words
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Re: Zattera’s separable words
Updated thoughts on Massimiliano Zattera's "slot alphabet" of the Voynich manuscript; and how to expand it to a full "Voynich glyph alphabet".
https://goodreads.com/author_blog_posts ... h-alphabet
A hypothetical wall chart for the Voynich scribes. The inscriptions are in Latin. Data from Zattera (2022) except {m} and {n} by author; graphic by author.
https://goodreads.com/author_blog_posts ... h-alphabet
A hypothetical wall chart for the Voynich scribes. The inscriptions are in Latin. Data from Zattera (2022) except {m} and {n} by author; graphic by author.
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Re: Zattera’s separable words
I love the work you did here. I am unsure the reasoning. although if you take a chart similar to this one in any language from the area and you will get many different but equally acceptable answers not just Latin.
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